What Are You Reading?
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- stem0
- paraselene0
read helen simpson's 'constitutional' last night. slim book of excellent short stories that kept me up 'till the wee hours.
i don't think boys would like them, though.
and they're rather macabre.
- Frantastic0
I've been reading old school
Nathaniel West - Day of the Locust (1930s hollywood)
Stanislaus Lem - Solaris (to make me finally sit down and watch the film properly)
Stefen Zweig - Chess (man goes chess loopy after Nazi torture)
- Baskerville0
I tend not to read fiction that much I generally read books about real things (don't know what you call those kind of book 'fact book', non-fiction?)
I read Freakonomics too recently which was a quick fun read but did make me think about approaching problems from a different perspective.
I also read some pop-psych books like Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton, good if you want a quick explanation of those kind of things.
But I was given the Penguin 70th Anniversary boxed-set (70 books by 70 different influential authors) so I'm trying to make a dent in those books. It's great because they are all pretty short so you get a small taste of the author. Also I like to see how well people can write in a small space, if you need 1000 pages to get something across what does that say about your communication.
One of the books is 'short short stories' by dave eggers. They are all about 1 or 2 pages long maybe 200 words in total but some of them are really funny.
I used to love his short stories in the back of the guardian weekend magazine.
- agentfour0
i read that 'how to be a graphic designer without losing your soul' thing over the weekend. Not bad.
its the first book ive read in about 5 years i think
- mg330
Currently reading this. Sobering as hell. It's a quick read if any of you are interested.
In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
- scarabin0
mad magazine